Manifolding sales-check.



F. THOMAS. MANIFOLDING SALES CHECK. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1, 19o?.

905,606. Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

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Be itlmown that I, FnANx Tnomia a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Manifol Sales- Check, of which the following is a fu clear, and exact description.

The invention has in view the provision of. a sales check for hotel and restaurant use by which it will be impose being detected, for the waiter tol render the patron a bill for any other 'amount than that specified by the order slip or slips turned in to the checker or cashier, also to keep the check in a clean and sanitary condition.

With the present checking system as used in large hotels-and restaurants, it has been found impractical to protect both the management and the patron against the rendering of false checks by those. intrusted with this duty, as ample opportunity is often found and' taken advantage of to manipulate the cleck whereby the patron is overcharged or the proprietor receives payment for less 4than the actual goods delivered.

I have conceived a system and a novel form of check by which these disadvantages are overcome, necessitating exposure m any case where the same account is not rendered to the proprietor as rendered to the patron. I accomplish this by inclosing a blank slip or other surface on which the clieck for the guest or patron is `made out, in an envelop or other receptacle, the articles purchased` being duplicated thereon by carbon paper or other suitable reproducin material as the articles 1 are written out on t e order slips.

Reference is to be had to the accom anying drawingls forming a part of this spec'- cation, in whic similar characters of re 'erence indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

re 1 is a face view of one embodiment.- of my invention showmg an order slip 1nL place as when writing thereon the different articles ordered; Eig. 2 is a like view with the order slip removed and' showing the extended ortlon at one side of the receptacle or enve op in the act of being torn off;

is a face view of the lower portion of the envelop showing the manner in which it is preferably opened; Fig..4 is aview corrending to Fig. 3, partly in section and r the envelop is opened, the check being drawn therefrom in dotted outine Fig. 5 is an inside view ofthe of Letters Patent.

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ible, without the same' `reason of t e impression of the Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

envelop or receptacle before the same is sealed; Fig. 6 is a cross section on the line 6- 6 of 2, and 7 is a longitudinal section on the line 7 -7 of Fig. 1.

The invention ne preferably constructed, comprises an envelo or receptacle comd of two leaves o paper or other mate rial 1, and 2, which are folded upon each other and gummed at the meeting edges, as

indicated at 3, forming a sealed inclosure. As best shown in Fig. 5, the leaf 1 is of slightly greater length and width, providing Van extended portion 4 at one side, and an extended portion 5 at the top, which are separated froni the leaf- 1 and the receptacle of which said leaf is apart, by lines of perforations -4 and 5, respectively. Formed as an integral part and attached to the bottom of either of the leaves 1 or 2, as, for exam le, as shown in Fig..v 5, is a sales check bla 6, which is provided with suitable ruling on its face .for receiving the du licate of the orders recorded on the order shps. At one corner of the check, a' diagonal line of perforations 7 is formed, and near the bottom thereof a cross line of perforations 8a coincident with a line of perforations 8 formed in the leaves the check 6 in the form of an independent slip, and produce said check directly on the inner face of the leaf 2 of the receptacle.

On the leaf 1 of the envelop is a reproducingmaterial 9, which is so ositoned as to be adjacent to the ruled portion of the check 6 when the envelop is sealed. This material 9 ma be in the form of an independent leaf of car on paper, or may be in t e nature of a coating directly applied to the inner face of the leaf 1.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the to fac'efof the envelo is provided with suitab e ruling A and prmte matter as also the extended or` tion 4, the ruling onthe lattei being suc as to receive the price mark of the articles ordered and the total amount of the same.

Disposed *over the top face of the envelop when 1n use, is an order slip 10, which is also referably ruled and positioned to bring the es thereof in alinement with those on the portion 4. v With the order slip in .this position the articles as ordered, are written thereon, to ether with the price, which is, by

ncil, reproduced 'on the inclosed check 6, t e price of the articles being also placed on the extended order as it is given in, being written on the slip together with the price, as is also the latter on the extended portion 4. The slip is then turned in at the kitchen to the checker or to the cashier before the article named thereon is obtained. It is thus seen `the same o en on the that unless some account is ke t by the waiter independent of the order siips, of thef articles served, it would be impossible to know the total cost of the order until the envelop was opened. This function is performed by-the memoranda on the extended portion 4, said memoranda also indicating the last line of the check on which an order was reproduced, thus avoiding the likelihood of producing two orders on the same line of the check.

when the patron is in readiness for his bill, the waiter detaches the extended portions 4 and 5 on the perforated lines 4a and 5a, respectively, and submits the check in a sealed envelop. The atron thereupon tears lline 8, which also acts to detach t e check from the sheet 2 on the perforated line 8B. The' check can then be readilywithdrawn from the envelop and observed. As shown, the perforated line 8 at the bottom of the envelop is not extended the entire width of the same; otherwise the envelop might accidentally be opened in de- {aaching the portion 4 on the perforated ine 4". j

When the check 6 is turned in to the` cashier, it is stamped at the to over the perforated line 7, the corner of t e check being torn ofi'` on this line and returned to the Waiter as a receipt for the money received.

I. am aware that prior to my invention A matter has been reproduced in an inclosed rations, a reproducing material within t e receptacle, and a sales check blank within the receptacle formed as a part thereof ad'acent to said reproducing material, said blan having a perforated corner and a perforated lower end coincident with a line of perforations formed in the lower end of the receptacle, whereb -as the receptacle is opened thereon, the lank will be detached therefrom and an order-slip superposed on said receptacle.

2. lIn a manifolding tion of an envelop sealed at opposite sides and having a sales check there1n,vand a reproducing material within the envelop in copying relation to the sales check, whereby when the articles purchased and urchase price are recorded at the outside o the envelop contiguous thereto, a co y is made on the sales check, said envelo liaving an extendedportion at one side t ereof separated from the'bod of the envelo by an indicated line on whic it is adaptedp for receiving said purchase rice.

In testimony whereof I ave signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRA-NK THOMAS. Witnesses:

W. W. HoLT, JN0. M. RITTER.

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